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The kernel of the new Geelong Arts Centre (GAC), formerly the Geelong Performing Arts Centre (GPAC), evolved out of a suite of old venues—a Temperance Hall (c.1858/59), a Mechanics Institute (c.1846), the Presbyterian ‘Steeple’ Church (1857), and the Brutalist-styled Centre (1978) (GAC, 2023a). GPAC was constituted under the Geelong Performing Arts Centre Trust Act 1980 (Victoria, 1980), the core functions of the construction of GAC; care for, improve, and maintain GAC; control and manage GAC; present and produce theatrical performances, operas, plays, dramas, ballets, musical and other performances, and entertainment of any kind in and outside GAC; promote the use of GAC by persons and bodies whom the Trust considers to be suitable; and perform any other functions appropriate to GAC as the Minister for Creative Industries may approve (GPACT, 2021: 2).
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Jones, D.S. (2023). Geelong Arts Centre Project. In: Planning for Urban Country. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-7192-3_11
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